Sparks Commentary

Part history, part politics, and part random other stuff.

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

A few problems with “The Communist Manifesto”

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" A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of communism . All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcis...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

My positive experience with psychology

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One of the great surprises of my  education  was how much I liked psychology. This would have surprised me in my younger days, as I though...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Why I am learning Ancient Greek

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"I am Alpha and Omega , the beginning and the end, the first and the last." - The New Testament, "The Revelation of St. J...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Did the Founding Fathers oppose political parties? (Actually, no … )

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It has often been argued that the Founding Fathers  were against political parties. Some of them undoubtedly were, but others of them actu...
Monday, September 23, 2013

A review of Melvyn Bragg's “The Adventure of English” (ITV)

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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." - William Shakespeare 's "...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Our Constitution

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A document may not seem To be of much worth. But one of them is among The best of things on Earth. It is our Constitution. It hel...

Miracle at Philadelphia

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A miracle occurred in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. The  United States Constitution  was signed. It was the product of four lon...
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By training, I am a business major with a concentration in marketing, and a certificate in economics. I originally wanted to do market research for businesses because I enjoyed the social science aspects of marketing, and I have studied psychology a little on my own; but I now wonder if this will ever be my field. I have also taken a fair amount of communications classes, because I thought about grad school in advertising or public relations (or even business & economic journalism), but I'm not sure I will ever do these things. (I'm glad I studied them just the same, though.) By inclination, I learn about a lot of other things in my spare time. For example, I am a history buff, an aspiring polyglot, an amateur linguist, a political philosopher (after a fashion), and a student of the Bible. Most of the things I study on my own these days have something to do with one of these subjects (or sometimes even more than one), and I write about many of them on my blog. So my actual profession is … you guessed it … a math tutor! Not what you'd expect, right? (Not what I would have expected, either … )
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